• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.51-64
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• 2003

The study aimed at conducting the comparative analysis of the service quality and the degree of satisfaction in the area of foods and beverages between recreational hotels and business hotels. Thus the quality of service was set up as tangibleness, reliability, responsive quality, confidentiality and sympathetic quality; the customer satisfaction was classified into the overall satisfaction and the degree of satisfaction of experience in using and analyzed. As the result of it, business hotels indicated higher than recreational hotels in tangibleness, reliability, confidentiality, the overall satisfaction and the degree of satisfaction of experience in using. Even in the effects of the service quality on the degree of satisfaction, there was difference between recreational hotels and business hotels. In conclusion, there is difference in the service quality and the degree of satisfaction on foods and beverages between recreational hotels and business hotels. Besides, to improve the degree of satisfaction on the field of foods and beverages of hotels, it is most important to understand the characteristics of main customers who use hotels.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.555-574
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• 2006

This study conducts a choice experiment to estimate the recreational values of major dam reservoirs in Korea. A discrete-choice econometric model is estimated with the data of experimented choices. Not only the recreation value of each dam lake but also the values of the characteristics of the lakes are estimated. It is shown that the value function of the amount of reserved water is not monotonically increasing. Water quality is the most important characteristic that affects the recreation value. Various other characteristics of the dams such as the availability of education facility, restaurants, hotels and parking lots also generate substantial amounts of recreational benefits.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.484-489
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• 2014

In this paper, we examined factors that influenced light pollution in Korean national parks during peak and off-peak tourist seasons. Cloud-and moonlight-free nighttime satellite images that were collected during October 2012(for peak season) and January 2013(for off-peak season) by the Day and Night Band (DNB) of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor were used to estimate the levels of light pollution in 19 national parks (excluding the Bukhansan and Mudeungsan National Parks). Bootstrapping regression analyses were conducted to examine the effects of socioeconomic and policy factors on light pollution in the study national parks for peak and off-peak tourist seasons, separately. The characteristics of light pollution in the national parks varied by season. During the peak tourist season, light pollution in the national parks were affected more by night lights nearby the parks than those within in the parks, while in the off-peak season, light sources in the parks were more important. Scattering of light emitted from hotels and other recreational facilities outside the parks that led to the sky glow effect can be attributed to the greater impact of night lights nearby the parks during the peak season. This result suggests that regulating light pollution nearby the park areas is needed to mitigate light pollution in the national parks, especially in a peak tourist season.